Anthropic Faces Copyright Lawsuit for Allegedly Training AI on Elvis Presley Music

AI firm Anthropic is being sued for copyright infringement, accused of using 274 Elvis Presley songs without authorization to train its AI models. Authentic Brands Group, managing Presley's music, filed the lawsuit on October 23 in a California federal court, seeking up to $150,000 per work. Plaintiffs claim Anthropic's business model relies on "copyright infringement on an unprecedented scale."